St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-11

The real estate market still continues
to indicate a steady though slow i'm
proyement. Sales have not increased
to any great extent, but there is a
stronger feeling and more inquiry. Not
a great deal of change need be expected
during the continuance of the state fair.
1t is period when our dealers expect to
be comparatively idle. While, however,
this is the case there are unmistakable
indications of better condition of
affairs, and this too in spite of the
Stringency of the money market. There
has never been known in this market a
time when holders were so Indifferent
as at present. No one seems anxious to
sell, and in many cases holders have
withdrawn their property wholly from
sale. Scarcely an instance is known
where person sells unless he gets the
top price. The holders of realty are
greatly to blame for the present cOndi-
ton. They will not sell at present
prices because they feel confident that
prices will advance, and they are able
to hold. This mode of proceeding, while
not being calculated to make so active a
market, is certain of making very firm
and solid one.
De Costa & Clark have purchased of
Kavanagh & Dawson lot on Ducas
street, in Eaton & Morrison's addition,
and will erect thereon large block to
be used for mattress factory.
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By way of illustrating the independ-
ence of holders it may be stated that
good round price was offered for 100 feet
on Mississippi street and also for so feet
on Minnesota street and. in each case,
but small difference stood between the
purchaser and the seller. The holder
would not give in and to end the matter
withdrew the property from the market.
The parties handling the late COmmo-
dore DavidSon'S estate were offered $685.
600 for so feet front on the corner of
WabaSha and Fifth streets, and 81. 900
per front foot for the corner of Fifth
and Robert streets, both of which offers
were declined.
There is gentleman in the city from
the South who, this week. will put S5O,-
fully examined number of pieces and
is fully satisfied that he cannot do bet
ter with his money:
There is unusual activity at present
between Gladstone and Lake Phalen.
The boulevarding of the lake with the
located park has caused good many to
look that way for residence building
sites, while the actual benefits to the To-
cality from the Duluth car shops keeps
a pretty steady inquiry from mechanics
for desirable lots to build homes near
their work. The feeling is pretty gem
eral that this vicinity is a pretty safe
place to put money into.
Dayton's Bluff.
This part of st. Paul. during the last
twelve months, has held her own in gen!
eral prosperity and growth with the,
best part of the town. 1t is impossible to
convey by words to the mind of a per
son who has not been over there how
grown, how its streets have been length1
ened, and graded, and severed, and
how, in every way, public improvements:
have been crowded forward. Streets
have been opened and graded for miles,
and acres of real estate that was COW!
cred with brush and rough trees have
been smOothed and leveled, and pleas
ant houses have been erected on them.
The following additional improvements
have been ordered:
Phalen avenue, graded from Seventh street
to Harvester avenue, with best material, j, 476
feet, 81 90 per foot, 81 $780,
Atlantic street, from the St. Paul & Duluth
railroad to Third street, with the best ma
terIal, 400 feet, $l.73 per foot, So, 100.
Fangemer, from Earl to English, with the
best material, 1916 feet, 81 90 per foot.
$500.
Cypress, from Seventh street to Suburban
avenue, with the best material, $3.50 feet at
50. II per foot. SEAT.
Conway, from Commercial to Maple, to be
macadamfzed 4,67O feet at So Is per foot,
S14,7 700.
Beech, from Earl to English, to be graded
a hoo 81 500 o. Sn
foot SO, 800.
Third, from Commercial to Maria avenue.
This contract for grading is included in a
number of other contracts
Maryland, from Como avenue to Book
street, to be graded with the best material,
25, 900 feet, So. 49 per foot, 1854, 12O.
Mound from Burns avenue to HiavItfa, Is
be graded with the best material; 965 feet,
80 cents per foot, $3.50.
Frances, from Hope to English, to be grad
ed of the best material; $500 feet, 1897
per foot, SIT 500.
Earl, from Beech to Mound street $500
feet at 81 .O6 per foot, S10,5O0.
Ravine street. from Hoffman avenue to
Maple street, and Hastings avenue, from
Bates avenue to Earl, are being advertised for
grading.
man avenue, to be graded with the best ma
terial; 62O feet at 81 go per foot, 1887.
The grading of Sixth street, from Maria
avenue TO Maple street, is under way.
All these public improvements are on
DaytOn'S Bluff proper. The northern
part of this bluff, however, continues on
till it meets what is known Arlington
Hills. and both districts are so located
that many of the streets naturally run
from one to the other. The above state
ment shows that between thirteen and
fourteen miles of grading and macada-
MIXING is to be done on the streets of
this part of one ward, the total cost of
which will be about S150,000. This
amount, it must be remembered, does
not go into the general taxes, but is a
special assessment levied directly upon
the property. itself This levy runs
from 81 90 per front foot to 1897.
ARLINGTON HILLS.
Maryland street is to be graded from Payne
Coo street is to be graded from Payne ay-
enue to Earl street, 1866 feet.
Case street is to be graded from Payne ay-
n ne to Forrest street, 3, 343 feet.
Sims street is to be graded from Payne az
enue to Forrest street, 1921 feet.
York street is to be graded from Payne av-
Magnolia street is to be graded from Payne
avenue to Earl street. Zoo feet.
This gives distance of five and one
half miles of grading to be done in
Arlington Hills, or about twenty miles
of street grading altogether ON Dayton's
bluff and the hills. This will give any,
one, who stops to think what wilder;
ness this part of the city was but a year
beeen wrought during this time.
Here is but small section of
the most uneven and billy part of the
city, covered in great part with wood
and underbrush, that has been so
changed in very brief space of time
that one would hardly recognize it, and
all because the requirements of the peO-
pie who reside there made the improve
ments necessary in one year that in the